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Identifier: americanengineer69newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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work whichthey have to perform. They are turned to an accurate fit forthe pump barrel, and packed with two brass rings sprunginto place ; there is also a grating in the pistons and guards,as shown by the engraving. Each pump is provided* with one foot-vaive, one piston-valve, and one delivery valve ; the seats and guards for eachbeing provided with gratings, as given for the piston. Eachvalve consists of three disks of sheet brass J.> in. thick, andof suitable diameters for the work. While these valves areheld firmly in place, they are easily removed, Ihe seats alsobeing made separate from the pump casings and boiled inplace. It will also be noticed that the design of the pump issuch that there are no pockets in the pump chambers beneaththe piston-valves where vapor can lodge. All bolts and studs in the water space of the pumps is madeof delta metal, and, for purposes of inspection, there is around hand-hole, 9 in. in diameter, fitted with a lover, in thefront of each pump barrel.
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fc-l S3 H o o oo►J E» Kuoo K HEXIH « S3 o ooo o S3i-i3OE» Vol. LXIX. No. ; I AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 315 The air pumps discharge lolo a feed tank placed in the forward part of each engine-room, and each one, together withIts condenser, la expected to maintain a vacuum within I in.of the mercury of the atmospheric barometer, when the propolling engines ure working at full power under a furreddr.ift. Like the other machinery that has been especially designedfor this vessel, space has been of the first Importance, andwith this end in view the pumps illustrated have liccn de-signed. Bolted to the bulkhead they have no Moor attach-ments, and occupy a horizontal area of 5 ft. 1 in. X 8 ft. 1 in.As already noted, the valves are driven by the Marshall year,and are arranged in accordance with the following details : Top. Bottom. Lead .;._, in. A >■ Lap ft in. ft >• Cut-olT 75 per Cent. 7.i per cent. Compression 88 95 SWITCHING LOCO

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  • bookyear:1893
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York___M_N__Forney
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:325
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